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Show OENERat- MBnlllAM TESTIFIEO A3 TOCOEUn d'ALENE AFPAinS IHt Oat li.iraellont tvre to rroca4 to ldb ""! Iflt Hown I.rrtloa. At the examination of General Mer rltm at the Coeur d'Alene Inveatlga Hon by the military committee of the bum, ha reviewed In detail hla luttruc Hon. In a telegram from Secretary Alger of May 31, be had referred to Oeneral Mrrrlam'a "original Inttruc tloDt." Oeneral Merrlam tettlfledthal he had never received any "original Inttruetleni' lH-yond the direction to proceed to Idaho to put down the In-aurreetloo In-aurreetloo He had applied lo the de partnieol twice for the "original In-atruclkiDt." In-atruclkiDt." but they had not been furnUtieil and he had come to the con clotlun that Secretary Alger waa ' error. In reply lo a aerlr of qnratlona, Oeneral Merrlam lrttlfle-1 that martial law wat declared by the governor of Idaho, upon wbute niuet the United Htatet troop were furnlihrd, and that the lection of the revlted ktatutct re-'lUlrlag re-'lUlrlag the prrtldent to proclaim a late of Inturrectton did not apply, Some of the federal troop, he tettlHed, were In Idaho and tome on their way there Ufore martial law waa declared, May) He had telegraphed (May J) totbe war department that he would xerclte martial law If action wat not disapproved by tho department. Up lo the time of hla arrival 118 ar realt had been made. Mr. Itobeitton ought lo gain an admUtlon that to toe ef tlicie arrrtla were made prior to the governor a proclamation, but Oeneral Merrlam denied thla emphatically, producing Ida telegrama to ahow that whea he ordered the arrral he tlated martial law ua declared. When he bad directed that nrrcat thould be titde by deputlca lie had not conceded that troop could not make Ihe arrrtta directly and without warrant under urtl) law. "You convened no tnllltnry court to try tliote prltonera?" "1 did not The atate courte were I open." "You took no paint to determine whether information had been ludpcd igalutt the men arretted?" "I did not." "You thin lent anldler to deputlca ehomado rret7" ' I did not. I tent toldlrnto protect deputlca and to rctetve and aafrguard prlauuera." "Do you think there can be civil of drrre under martial law?" "I do, emphatically." "Deputlca exercltlng the function! ot military onicera?" "Yea, utultrtlie direction of the gov ea-ior."''' - . llcneral Merrlam In rcepouae to a qtrallon aa to whether he now conald ered the people of Shothone county capable of aelf-governmcnt, tald he waa uot In poatctalon of aufllclent Information In-formation to give an opinion. |